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Beyond the Prepositions: Using Power Analysis to Inform Strategies for Social Action
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-12-11)This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to - often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several frameworks which integrate these ... -
Beyond the ‘Balance of Nature’: Pastoralists’ Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability
(White Horse Press, 2021-03-01)David Attenborough’s mission to restore the balance of nature in the documentary, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement, is at once inspiring and concerning. What if the balance of nature doesn’t exist? What if this ... -
Channeling Contraband: How States Shape International Smuggling Routes
(Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2021-03-12)Although smuggling is commonly assumed to happen in remote and difficult-to-access borderlands, in reality, smuggling is most prevalent in areas that states tightly control, including at formal border crossings. To understand ... -
Regenerative Agriculture: An Agronomic Perspective
(Sage Journals, 2021-03-02)Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction. Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative Agriculture. But what is ... -
The Resurgence of Agricultural Mechanisation in Ethiopia: Rhetoric or Real Commitment?
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2021-01-31)Ethiopia’s agricultural development strategies bypassed smallholder mechanisation for decades. Mechanisation returned to the policy agenda in 2013 but recent pro-mechanisation rhetoric lacks operational commitments. Based ... -
Researching the Politics of Illegal Activities
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-01)Researching illegal activities, while an object of increasing interest, generates a range of methodological challenges for political scientists. Rather than an exhaustive discussion, this article provides a simple framework ... -
Rethinking Disease Preparedness: Incertitude and the Politics of Knowledge
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-02-24)This paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics of knowledge at the centre. Through examining the experiences of Ebola, Nipah, cholera and COVID-19 across multiple ... -
Breaking Out of the Policy Enclave Approach to Child Labour in sub-Saharan African Agriculture
(Sage Journals, 2021-02-17)This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy ... -
Service Delivery Transformation for UHC in Asia and the Pacific
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)This article was drafted as part of a review of strategiesfor making progress toward universal health coverage in the coun-tries of Asia and the Pacific. It focuses on strengthening thedelivery of services, in the context ... -
Next Steps Towards Universal Health Coverage Call for Global Leadership
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019)Universal health coverage (UHC) has been identified as a priority for international development by the G20, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations General Assembly. Since it was explicitly incorporated into ... -
Etude des déterminantsde la vulnérabilité et stratégie de gestion locale dans les quartiers inondés de Yeumbeul Sud et Keur Massar (Sénégal)
(Urban ARK, 2018)Cette recherche contribue à la littérature sur le risque de catastrophes, en approfondissant la compréhensionde la relation entre la vulnérabilité aux inondations, l'urbanisme et les stratégies d'adaptation locales. Ce ... -
Getting the Message Right on Nature‐based Solutions to Climate Change
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-02-01)Nature‐based solutions (NbS) - solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature - have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while ... -
Medium-scale Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe: the Experience of A2 Resettlement Farms
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-02-03)The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after ... -
Overcoming Poverty in Multidimensional Poverty Interventions through Self-assessment and Mentoring
(Social Sciences School of Universidad de Palermo, Argentina, 2020-10-06)A microfinance organization in Paraguay has developed the “Poverty Stoplight” (PS), an innovative technological tool that allows families to self-assess their level of multidimensional poverty and start an ... -
Newly Evolving Pastoral and Post-pastoral Rangelands of Eastern Africa
(2020-11-16)Over the past two decades, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced sweeping changes associated with growing human populations, shifting land use, expanding livestock marketing and trade, and greater investment ... -
Capacidades governamentais municipais e desenvolvimento humano local no Brasil
(Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP), 2020-12-24)Este documento tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre las capacidades municipales del estado y el desarrollo humano en Brasil. Con este fin, construimos un marco teórico-analítico que propone tipos de ... -
Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-01-11)The extended family household, in which multiple generations or married siblings of a family live together, is common in developing countries. We conducted a series of public goods experiments in such households in five ... -
Revisiting Group Farming in a Post-socialist Economy: The Case of Romania
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-12-11)In the 1990s, Romania decollectivised its agriculture under the Law on Agricultural Land Resources (Law 18/1991). Like many former socialist countries which had undertaken farm collectivization under socialism on a large ... -
Small Towns and Land Reform in Zimbabwe
(Springer Link, 2020-12-07)Zimbabwe’s land reform from 2000 radically transformed the agrarian structure, and with this small towns in rural areas. This article explores three such towns—Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa—examining changes in population, ... -
Assessing Mental Health in a Context of Extreme Poverty: Validation of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale in Rural Haiti
(PLOS ONE, 2020-12-14)A widening evidence base across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) points towards mutually reinforcing linkages between poverty and mental health problems. The use of validated and culturally relevant measures of ...